Home Rule League

The Home Rule League was a liberal and nationalist political party in Ireland which existed from 1873 to 1882. The party advocated for "Home Rule", including the restoration of a devolved Irish Parliament. It grew out of the Home Government Association of Isaac Butt, which evolved into a formal political party in 1873. It included Anglo-Irish aristocrats and clergymen, former Irish Liberal Party MPs, and political radicals. In 1877, the radical leader Charles Stewart Parnell succeeded Butt as leader of the party, and he transformed the party into the radical, middle-class, and Catholic Irish Parliamentary Party in 1882.